diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 3b8376f0a1..4da20e0d4f 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1651,6 +1651,9 @@ Release 2.8.0 - UNRELEASED
     HADOOP-12718. Incorrect error message by fs -put local dir without
     permission. (John Zhuge via Yongjun Zhang)
 
+    HADOOP-12735. core-default.xml misspells
+    hadoop.workaround.non.threadsafe.getpwuid (Ray Chiang via cmccabe)
+
 Release 2.7.3 - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/resources/core-default.xml b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/resources/core-default.xml
index c25f49e9cd..ed3802fa53 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/resources/core-default.xml
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/resources/core-default.xml
@@ -428,7 +428,7 @@ for ldap providers in the same way as above does.
 </property>
 
 <property>
-  <name>hadoop.work.around.non.threadsafe.getpwuid</name>
+  <name>hadoop.workaround.non.threadsafe.getpwuid</name>
   <value>false</value>
   <description>Some operating systems or authentication modules are known to
   have broken implementations of getpwuid_r and getpwgid_r, such that these